The homoeopathic materia medica : arranged systematically and practically / by A. Teste ; translated from the French and edited by Chas. J. Hempel.

  • Teste, Alph. (Alphonse), 1814-
Date:
1854
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    eczema, etc. Most of its symptoms, like those of arnica, ledum, etc., are aggravated by artificial heat, sometimes by motion, but more frequently by rest; they are most fully manifested in the evening and at night. Rhus is antidoted by Bry., Oamjph., Coff., Sulph., but especially by Ledum. Croton Tiglium.—Genus Croton, family euphorbiaceas, class monoecia monadelphia. The fruit of this tree, which grows in the East-Indies, consists of small, oblong, blackish and rugose seeds, which are known in commerce under the name of croton tiglium, or pineus nucleus Moluccanus. A yellowish oil is extracted from them, of a nauseous odor, an acrid, burning, horrible taste, and which Allceopathic physicians pretend to use as a drastic and rubefacient. Empirical applications. — Although mentioned in the Materia Medica of Ferrein, which was published in 1770, yet this oil, which was imported in Europe by a merchant of the East India Company, named Cromwell, was scarcely used in France previous to 1824, if we may credit the report, which, >on the 13th of January, 1824, was read by M. Fried- lander, before the Royal Academy of Medicine.1 Like the juice of rhus, the croton, if applied to the skin, causes a vesicular eruption, and, having been absorbed, a similar eruption on the mucous membranes of the intestines, or at least of the rectum. It often happens, say Messrs. Trousseau and Pidoux, that the person who has to make the frictions, is attacked with a vesicular eruption on the face although these parts had not been touched by the oil. Doctor Ernest Boudon, has seen an eruption develope itself on the scrotum, when different parts of the body were rubbed with the oil. It is probable that this eruption arises from the oil having been transferred to these parts.2 These gentlemen, 1 Journ. compl. des, sc. m6d. vol. XVII. p. 340. 2 Traite de tbcrapeutique, vol. I. p. 627.